Two friends staying at a hotel in out-of-season Seaburgh meet fellow guest Paxton, a young man whose curiosity has led him to seek out a buried Anglo-Saxon crown…with unfortunate consequences.

This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS” by M. R. James (1925).

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About the story:

"A Warning to the Curious” by M. R. James. First published in The London Magazine, August 1925. Later collected in “A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories” by M. R. James (1925, pub. Edward Arnold).

Music credits:

Music used : "BATS" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"

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Music used : "THE LAST LETTER" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"

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Music used: "LOST IN THE WOODS" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"

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Music used: "MORNING DAWN" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"

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Sound effects: All sound effects sourced at Freesound*.

*Used with the following licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Spotify.

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